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Explore the connections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages, Language, Culture and Communication, Seventh Edition,explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. The text examines the multifaceted meanings and uses of language. It also emphasizes the ways in which language encapsulates speakers'meanings and intentions. Nancy Bonvillain focuses on analyzing communicative interactions, revealing how social relations are produced and reproduced through speech. The text also highlights the analysis of language ideologies, that is, the beliefs that people have about language structure itself, about language usage, and about appropriate norms for producing and evaluating speech. This 7th edition contains updated information throughout as well as several new sections. Examples of language practices in African societies have also been added. Learning Goals Upon completing this book, readers will be able to: Recognize reputation and pattern in human speech. Understand the formation and structure of language. Have a strong understanding of the use of rhetoric in communication. 0205953565 / 9780205953561 Language, Culture, and Communication Plus MySearchLab with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of: 0205239927 / 9780205239924 MySearchLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card 020591764X / 9780205917648 Language, Culture, and Communication

Nancy Bonvillain is a professor of anthropology and linguistics at Bard College at Simon's Rock. She is author of over twenty books on language, culture, and gender, including a series on Native American peoples. In her field work she studied the Mohawk and Navajo, and she has published a grammar and dictionary of the Akwesasne dialect of Mohawk. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 1972 and has taught at Columbia University, The New School, SUNY Purchase and Stonybrook, and Sarah Lawrence College.

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1) Brief Table of Contents

2) Full Table of Contents

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Form of the Message

Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning

Chapter 4: Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication

Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions

Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed Languages

Chapter 7: Learning Language

Chapter 8: The Acquisition of Communicate Competence

Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race

Chapter 10: Language and Gender

Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations

Chapter 12: Bilingual Communities

Chapter 13: Language and Institutional Encounters

FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Speech Communities

Chapter 2: The Form of the Message

Phonology: The Sounds of Language

Morphology: The Structure of Words

Syntax: The Structure of Sentences

Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning

Manual Language

Nonverbal Communication

Chapter 3: Language and Cultural Meaning

Foundations of Linguistic Anthropology

Lexical and Cultural Categories

Cultural Presupposition

Extended and Transferred Meaning

Chapter 4: Contextual Components: Outline of an Ethnography of Communication

Ethnography of Communication

Settings

Participants

Topics and Goals

Speech Acts

Routines

Narratives

Chapter 5: Communicative Interactions

Structural Properties of Conversation

Conversational Postulates

Directives

Directives and Responses in Context

Politeness

Chapter 6: Digital Communications and Signed Languages

Telephone Conversations

Online Communication

Signed Languages and Communicative Practices

Chapter 7: Learning Language

Acquisition of Language

Complex Grammars

Comparative Evidence

Some Universal Sequences

Instructional Strategies

Strategies in Other Societies

Chapter 8: The Acquisition of Communicate Competence

Acquiring Communicative Styles

Learning Status and Role

Learning Discourse

Chapter 9: Societal Segmentation and Linguistic Variation: Class and Race

Social Stratification

Caste

Class

Race

Chapter 10:Language and Gender

Pronunciation

Grammatical Variants

Choices of Vocabulary

Gender-Related Conversational Styles

Language and Sexuality

Images of Gender in Linguistic Form

Chapter 11: Multilingual Nations

India

Canada

The United States

Chapter 12: Bilingual Communities

Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism

Linguistic Change

Language Use in Bilingual Communities

Bilingual Conversational Strategies

Interethnic Miscommunication

Chapter 13: Language and Institutional Encounters

Language Ideologies

Language and Status

Institutional Contexts

Education

Medical Encounters

Legal Settings

The Media

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Language, Culture, and Communication

Language, Culture, and Communication

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